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avoid waste- She adjusted the thermostat as part of an effort to economize.
economize = avoid waste
- The school will have to economize, but hopefully without cutting teacher's salaries.
- They had to economize space until the new factory was built.
- (said in jest): Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.Mark Twain
- This morning Shukhov economized.Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- I walked over to Madison Avenue and started to wait around for a bus because I didn't have hardly any money left and I had to start economizing on cabs and all.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- What we had to do now was economize further, go halves again, tough measures for tough times: two legs sufficed, so also with eyes, kidneys.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Theresa's salary was barely enough; they were economizing less stringently than before, but still had to watch their expenses.Gish Jen -- Typical American
- I try to economize, but it just seems to evaporate.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- I could set about economizing in our way of living.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- He's travelling second class; he's been spending too much money of late, and feels the need to economize.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- So now my question is, what can you do to economize?Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- He could not bring himself to consider, calculate, or economize.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Joe grumbled awhile; then he agreed with his friend that what daylight was left ought to be economized in getting things ready for leaving.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- You see I am obliged to economize, in case your prosperity should cease.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- It seems likely, indeed, that I shall be able to economise at his own.Henry James -- Washington Square
- She rented a big place and then settled in a space-economizing style, gathering and piling things around her.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- She promised herself she would economise in order to pay back later on.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- There is a powerful reason which usually induces democracies to economize upon the salaries of public officers.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- They dined extravagantly at their hotel at night, and next morning sneaked round the corner to economize at a Childs' Restaurant.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
economized = avoided waste
economizing = avoiding waste
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use economize.)
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use economize.)
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